Baroness Amos: The Minister of State, John Spellar, met separately with the Democratic Unionist Party, th Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party, the Progressive Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party to discuss the future of electoral registration in Northern Ireland. These meetings took place in November 2004.

Baroness Amos: The information requested is given in the tables below. Note that:
	Russia is not included as it is not a (Development Assistance Committee) DAC donor;
	official development assistance (ODA) is usually given as percentage of gross national income (GNI) in line with the UN target
	the amounts to Africa do not include contributions channelled through multilateral organisations, although the latter are included in the total in Table B.
	
		Table A -- Bilateral net ODA to Africa as percentage of gross national income (GNI)
		
			  Canada France Germany Italy Japan UK USA 
			 1974 0.11 0.25 0.08 0.01 0.01 0.07 0.02 
			 1975 0.13 0.25 0.10 0.02 0.02 0.06 0.02 
			 1976 0.11 0.22 0.09 0.02 0.01 0.07 0.03 
			 1977 0.08 0.20 0.08 0.01 0.02 0.06 0.04 
			 1978 0.11 0.21 0.10 0.01 0.03 0.08 0.05 
			 1979 0.10 0.20 0.12 0.01 0.04 0.10 0.05 
			 1980 0.10 0.21 0.10 0.01 0.04 0.09 0.06 
			 1981 0.09 0.23 0.11 0.02 0.03 0.09 0.06 
			 1982 0.11 0.26 0.14 0.05 0.03 0.08 0.05 
			 1983 0.09 0.24 0.13 0.06 0.03 0.07 0.06 
			 1984 0.12 0.27 0.12 0.11 0.03 0.06 0.06 
			 1985 0.11 0.28 0.12 0.13 0.03 0.07 0.07 
			 1986 0.09 0.26 0.11 0.17 0.03 0.06 0.05 
			 1987 0.10 0.26 0.10 0.18 0.03 0.06 0.04 
			 1988 0.10 0.26 0.11 0.20 0.04 0.08 0.04 
			 1989 0.10 0.28 0.11 0.14 0.04 0.08 0.04 
			 1990 0.09 0.31 0.12 0.12 0.04 0.06 0.06 
			 1991 0.09 0.30 0.09 0.08 0.05 0.08 0.07 
			 1992 0.10 0.30 0.11 0.10 0.03 0.07 0.05 
			 1993 0.07 0.30 0.08 0.08 0.03 0.05 0.04 
			 1994 0.06 0.30 0.07 0.11 0.03 0.06 0.04 
			 1995 0.07 0.24 0.06 0.04 0.03 0.05 0.03 
			 1996 0.07 0.22 0.07 0.03 0.03 0.06 0.02 
			 1997 0.05 0.20 0.07 0.03 0.02 0.05 0.02 
			 1998 0.06 0.16 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.06 0.02 
			 1999 0.04 0.14 0.05 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.02 
			 2000 0.03 0.14 0.05 0.02 0.03 0.08 0.02 
			 2001 0.03 0.12 0.05 0.02 0.03 0.08 0.02 
			 2002 0.05 0.18 0.05 0.07 0.02 0.07 0.03 
			 2003 0.06 0.20 0.09 0.05 0.02 0.08 0.05 
		
	
	
		Table B -- Bilateral net ODA to Africa as percentage of total net ODA
		
			  Canada France Germany Italy Japan UK USA 
			 1974 24.0 55.9 22.1 8.4 4.1 16.7 7.6 
			 1975 24.4 56.8 25.6 20.3 9.6 15.4 7.5 
			 1976 23.6 55.2 26.3 19.2 7.3 17.1 11.9 
			 1977 16.0 52.7 25.5 11.6 10.8 13.9 15.5 
			 1978 20.5 53.6 28.4 4.9 12.8 16.5 17.6 
			 1979 20.4 46.4 26.1 7.4 13.3 18.7 23.4 
			 1980 22.5 47.8 23.2 8.5 11.1 25.6 21.1 
			 1981 21.4 44.8 22.9 14.4 10.0 20.6 28.5 
			 1982 27.6 46.2 28.7 22.4 12.2 20.3 20.0 
			 1983 19.8 43.1 26.2 31.5 9.7 18.5 23.0 
			 1984 23.6 43.8 27.5 40.0 8.8 18.6 25.6 
			 1985 22.6 44.9 26.4 49.1 10.1 21.5 30.4 
			 1986 18.6 45.7 25.1 43.0 10.5 19.0 22.7 
			 1987 21.5 43.7 26.5 51.0 9.6 21.2 22.2 
			 1988 20.2 44.9 26.9 50.6 12.9 24.1 17.1 
			 1989 22.2 46.7 27.1 33.5 13.5 27.0 24.1 
			 1990 20.2 51.5 28.9 38.1 11.8 21.7 31.0 
			 1991 20.2 49.2 24.4 27.6 15.0 24.6 36.1 
			 1992 20.8 47.4 28.3 29.3 9.3 22.6 25.6 
			 1993 16.4 47.6 21.6 26.2 11.5 17.0 24.7 
			 1994 14.7 47.0 22.1 39.9 10.6 20.5 25.4 
			 1995 18.5 43.1 20.1 29.5 11.1 19.1 25.1 
			 1996 23.2 44.6 21.7 16.2 14.1 20.1 17.6 
			 1997 13.8 44.5 23.8 23.7 10.3 19.0 27.4 
			 1998 19.7 40.4 20.0 19.7 10.4 21.8 21.5 
			 1999 15.4 36.8 19.3 13.5 10.0 23.5 21.5 
			 2000 12.5 44.1 17.3 18.3 9.1 25.6 21.2 
			 2001 14.2 36.5 16.6 12.0 11.1 26.3 17.3 
			 2002 19.4 47.5 19.0 34.8 7.5 21.3 24.0 
			 2003 25.4 49.5 30.4 30.6 7.9 24.0 31.2

Lord Bach: Obligations imposed upon the United Kingdom by international humanitarian law are covered within Her Majesty's Armed Forces through instruction and training in the Law of Armed Conflict (LoAC). All new entrants to the Armed Forces, of all ranks, receive training on LoAC during initial training and specialist training courses. Such training has been delivered throughout the past four years. On entry into productive service Army and Royal Marines personnel renew this training annually as part of their individual training directives.
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